What hot issues and trends are you currently seeing?
A definite increase in deal activity in the health care and TMT sectors, shareholder activists becoming involved with some very large public companies, and low interest rates and inflation continuing to drive corporate cash balances and deal structures.
What are you currently working on that you never expected to be?
I spent the first six years of my career doing exclusively public-public M&A, hostile takeovers and proxy fights, so the expansion of my practice to private equity and restructuring has really broadened my horizons and skill set.
Which blogs/websites do you read the most?
In addition to the usual suspects (DealBook, DealLawyers, WSJ Law Blog and the Harvard Law School Blog), I read Deadspin, Marginal Revolution, Volokh and Gizmodo.
What do you like to do in your free time?
Spend time with my family (wife and three boys), and I’ve recently taken up competitive powerlifting.